Early life and education

Riggs was born in Maryland in 1980 on a 200-year-old farm, and grew up in Florida, where he attended Pine View School for the Gifted. He studied English literature at Kenyon College, and studied film at the University of Southern California.

Career

His work on short films for the Internet and blogging for Mental Floss got him a job writing The Sherlock Holmes Handbook which was released as a tie-in to the 2009 Sherlock Holmes film.

Riggs had collected curious vernacular photographs and approached his publisher, Quirk Books, about using some of them in a picture book. On the suggestion of an editor, Riggs used the photographs as a guide from which to put together a narrative. The resulting book was Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children which made The New York Times Best Seller list.

Another book inspired by old photographs, Talking Pictures was published by Harper Collins in October 2012. The sequel Hollow City: The Second Novel of Miss Peregrine's Children was released on January 14, 2014. The third installment in the Miss Peregrine's series, titled Library of Souls, was announced in early 2015. It was released on September 22, 2015.

Personal life

Riggs currently lives in Santa Monica, California and in 2013 married author Tahereh Mafi.

Works

• The Sherlock Holmes Handbook: The Methods and Mysteries of the World's Greatest Detective. Quirk Books. 2009-09-30. ISBN 978-1-59474-429-7.
• Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. Quirk Books. 2011-06-07. ISBN 978-1-59474-513-3.
• Talking Pictures: Images and Messages Rescued from the Past. Harper Collins. 2012-02-14. ISBN 978-0-06-209949-5.
• Hollow City: The Second Novel of Miss Peregrine's Children. Quirk Books. 2014-01-14. ISBN 978-1-59474-612-3.
• Library of Souls (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children #3). Quirk Books. 2015-09-22. ISBN 978-1-59474-758-8.

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